L.A. – Hyatt West Hollywood on strike

Bellmen, desk workers and other employees at the Hyatt hotel on Sunset Strip walked out early Thursday after nearly a year of contentious contract talks, union officials said. About 120 employees at the hotel, known as the “Rock and Roll…

Bush Blair Project

Will anyone ask about the Downing Street memo? One issue that Bush — and Blair — should be questioned about is the Downing Street Memo in which the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency asserted that the White House was…

Microsoft signs on as Gnomedex sponsor

We have over five divisions coming in this year, including MSN, Windows Marketplace, the Windows Client Consumer department, and… something brand new, and another something secret! That makes Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google among the sponsors for this now sold out…

Keep Green clean

Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica City Council member and highly visible Green, recently resigned from the Green Party over the inability of the California Green Party to live up to its own standards of openness and transparency concerning political donations and disclosure. He…

Now growing in the Polizeros garden

The aptly named dog vomit slime mold (yuck!), it lives … and in our backyard too … Incidentally there’s no way to get rid of it, so I recommend you just enjoy it.  These slime molds have also inspired a science…

What’s the worst ad song ever?

Via the Rock and Rap Confidential listserv Listen to this story on NPR’s Day to Day Last week, I asked you to send in your favorite examples of incongruous advertising soundtracks. (This was in response to GE’s use of the…